Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCormick beat out both her male competitors. Representative Rathbone stalked along some 90,000 votes behind her for the second of the two nominations-at-large...
...subvert the state and throne. Followed at once, from the Ministry of Home Affairs, an order for the dissolution of the Ronoto, on the ground that it had become a Communist organization. In Japan, as everyone knows, the practice or preaching of Communism has been illegal since 1923. Suppressed along with the Ronoto, last week, were two sympathetic organizations: the League of Proletarian Youth and the Japanese Labor Council...
...unwelcome pleasure, therefore, to see an amateur performance which for its success rests not on its amateurishness but rather on its sound theatrical value. The Pudding shows will draw them in regardless of real merit all along the tour and in Cambridge because of their appeal to Harvard followers. They do not need to be hits to have full houses. In view of this, it is gratifying to witness at the hands of this organization a production which can be placed with the best of college theatricals...
...natural associations of the catch phrase thinker with the word "melodrama" are the mustachio and hound dogs, the Tennesseean Montagues and Capulets, and the revolving saw that yearns for the hero's throat. But along Catfish Row, in the negro tenement district of Charleston, murder, knife behind back, walks hand in hand with music. The very name of melodrama was derived of this union. Modern usage of the word had its birth in the musically accompanied plays of the mauve decade, when "Hearts and Flowers," various funeral marches, and "After the Ball" were softly breathed by violins below the stage...
...difficult at the present writing to formulate any definite policy of running an organization as complicated as the University Library, but I plan to follow along the lines so well laid down and so well carried out, which my deceased friend and predecessor, Professor A. C. Coolidge instituted. The problems are in part the question of additional space, in part the choice of various fields in which special attention should be devoted to building up our collections; but the fundamental point at issue is to make the Library an organization which will continue in the future as it has done...